June–July 2012

The Cultural Olympiad

The world's stage ♦ Shakespeare and the Middle East ♦ Uniting the artist and the athlete ♦ Music as the food of harmony: Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra ♦ Born of the wind: the Arabian horse and equestrianism ♦ Le Corbusier's Gymnasium ♦ The London Aquatics Centre ♦ The burden of history: Algeria 50 years on ♦ PLUS Reviews and events in London

April–May 2012

Palestine

Palestine Studies at SOAS ♦ Consequences of decline ♦ Reinforcing the structures of occupation ♦ Gradations of pacification ♦ Urgently seeking a solution ♦ Right to rights, and right to return ♦ A pioneering anthropologist in Palestine ♦ Palestine on film ♦ Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish ♦ PLUS Reviews and events in London

February–March 2012

Iran

December 2011–January 2012

Iraq

Iraq after the US withdrawal ♦ Iraqi cinema ♦ The search for the stolen collection of the National Museum ♦ Sumerian cuisine ♦ The hybridity of Iraqi culture ♦ Mapping Iraqi art ♦ PLUS Reviews and events in London